Now marked by sparse vegetation ... In her role as deputy manager of the Aral Sea Environmental Restoration Project in Central Asian Kazakhstan, Zadneprovskaya, has spent the past three years ...

The team crossed Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan by plane, train and car to go to the remote sides of the Aral. While there, they documented how climate change is further impacting lives of those in the ...

Perhaps even more frightening is the revelation that the Aral Sea once was home to a secret Soviet biological weapons testing facility. Located on Vozrozhdeniya Island—which, now that the sea is ...

The abandoned vessels and a few rotting signs are the only remains of the port city that once stood on the banks of the Aral Sea. The water disappeared decades ago.

Since the 1960s, the Aral Sea has dried up and Barsa-Kelmes now finds itself in the middle of a desert, making it one of the only nature reserves in the world to be located in a zone of an ...